Merge conflictsHEADmaster

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 28d4086..df34f4f 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -7,17 +7,22 @@ import requests
 import datetime
 import json
 
+# Constant URL to Hacker News
 base_url = "https://news.ycombinator.com/"
+# Calculate the date 10 years ago as %Y-%m%d
 year = int(date.today().strftime("%Y")) - 10
 today = str(year) + date.today().strftime("-%m-%d")
+# Request the page
 r = requests.get('https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day='+today)
+# Parse the html
 soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml")
+# Get the post specified by the first argument
 items = soup.find_all("tr", "athing")[:3]
-
 index = int(sys.argv[1])
 item = items[index]
-
 story = item.find("a", "storylink")
+
+# Parse the title and link from the post
 title = story.text
 link = story["href"]
 if "http" not in link:
@@ -38,18 +43,19 @@ except:
     
 
 
+# Find the comments link from the row
 comment_el = item.next_sibling
 comment_link = base_url + comment_el.find_all("a")[-1]["href"]
 if comment_link == link:
     comment_link = ""
 
+# Format the final string
 toot_content = title + "\n" + link + "\n"+comment_link
 
+# Connect to Mastodon and send a toot
 mastodon = Mastodon(
     access_token = '/home/mark/hndecade/hndecade_usercred.secret',
     api_base_url = 'https://botsin.space'
 )
 
-print(toot_content)
-#mastodon.toot(toot_content)
-
+mastodon.toot(toot_content)